There is no hostility to science in the Republican Party this is such a blatant lie. The conservative movement is loyal to facts and not hype. Global warming is hype. It is motivated by billions of dollars of grant money and socialist government control, not science. I thought we were on the way to exposing that, but there is a resurgence.
I can’t figure out how they pulled it off, but ANYTHING a liberal just happens to spit out of their mouth is instant fact.
Add to this that ANYTHING anyone ONE PERSON, who happens to claim they are conservative says is instantly added as part of our permanent platform, while the same doesn’t apply to them.
If a looney toon on the right says something , we’ll then that’s how all conservatives feel and is central to our core.
If a looney toon (i know they all are....lol) on the left says something, the same does not happen. For example; the PETA people or environmental terrorists, global warming fraudsters.
In the end, as so many of us say and so many posts point out. We have no control over the MSM narrative and overwhelmingly most voters and young people only feel what is “right” is the values espoused by CNN or the latest immoral sitcom characters’ on t.v. universe.
I’m in the camp right now that says we don’t have any next move, I’m hoping someone comes up with something effective, but sometimes you need to recognize defeat =(.
Unfortunately it is not a lie. THIS is a very big challenge for conservatives because we have been tarred with it, and not entirely unfairly so. You see it here. Almost every SunkenCiv thread or Asronomy Picture of the Day thread gets spammed by a strong anti-science crowd.
I am a scientist and a conservative, and I can tell you that conservatives have lost that argument. Virtually every scientist I know is convinced that conservatives are anti-science. You cannot change the perception by saying it is not so. There is a lot of hard work to do to dispel that view.
BS. Global Warming notwithstanding, there's a great deal of hostility to science among some conservatives. Look at the daily creation threads that get posted here. Look at the ham-fisted non-answer Rubio had to give when he was asked the age of the earth. He danced around the subject out of fear of offending Republican-voting constituents who believe that Adam and Eve had pet dinosaurs and at one time the earth was covered in water from the top of Mt. Everest on down for exactly 40 days.
Um...have you ever read any thread remotely having to do with science or scientists on FR?